Buying Juice: Price Breakdown
A popular mail-order juice cleanse brand sells 12-oz. cold-pressed celery lemon juices in packs of 18 for $110. If you drink 3 bottles consistently a week, you’d need to buy the pack 9 times a year, which would span 54 weeks. You'd pay at least $990 yearly.
For the sake of simplicity, we’ll calculate based on the cost of an individual bottle: $6.11.
Making Juice: Price Breakdown
A pound of celery yields a little over one cup of juice, and one lemon yields about 3 tablespoons. A pound of celery and two lemons would make 12 ounces of juice.
The average price of 1 lb of celery and 2 lemons is $3.03.
Making 12 oz of celery lemon juice three times a week would cost $472.68 a year in ingredients. When you add the investment of our AUTO10 Plus juicer, it comes out to $1,242.67 the first year.
While it costs about $289.51 more the first year, the investment in a juicer pays off as time goes by. Just take a look:
Year 1 |
Juicery |
Homemade |
| Kuvings Hands-Free Slow Juicer AUTO10 Plus | X | $769.99 |
| Average price of 12 oz. juice | $6.11* | $3.03** |
| Cost to consume 3 times a week | $18.33* | $9.09** |
| Cost of juicing a year | $953.16* | $472.68** |
| Total amount spent on year 1 | $953.16* | $1,242.67** |
Year 2 |
Juicery |
Homemade |
| Kuvings Hands-Free Slow Juicer AUTO10 Plus | X | X |
| Average price of 12 oz. juice | $6.11* | $3.03** |
| Cost to consume 3 times a week | $18.33* | $9.09** |
| Cost of juicing a year | $953.16* | $472.68** |
| Total amount spent on year 2 | $953.16* | $472.68** |
*Cost calculated from an 18-pack of cold-pressed juices.
**Cost of ingredients calculated using the 2025 USDA national average cost of apples, beets, and carrots.
After the initial investment, juicing at home becomes significantly less expensive. You also save even more money using your juicer to make plant milk, sorbet, and smoothies.
More Reasons to Juice at Home
- Homemade juice is free from preservatives and additives, which can alter taste and nutrient value.
- Juice from the store is pasteurized, a process that heats juice to destroy bacteria. Pasteurization is great for shelf stability, but the heat kills beneficial enzymes and micronutrients.
- Homemade juice is customizable. You know exactly what ingredients you're consuming, and you can cater to your specific nutritional needs.
- Bottled or frozen juice can't compare with the taste of fresh-squeezed juice.
- Buying less juice = using fewer plastic bottles.
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